The creation of the beta program of WhatsApp It has meant a before and after at the level of functionalities within the application. There are many users who can benefit from these functions months before their official launch, or even from trying tools that will never see the light of day. The last big news published in the beta of WhatsApp is a new design for your floating player that allows you to play without leaving the app (PiP, picture in picture) YouTube or Instagram content, among others. This new design contains a series of changes at the shortcut level that allow to give more functionality to the tool.
The floating WhatsApp player receives a new design
WhatsApp beta news is thoroughly analyzed by BetaInfo, a medium dedicated solely and exclusively to this task. For a few weeks now, the beta version for Android already had a new floating player design and it has been in version 2.21.220.15 for iOS when they have decided to make the leap also to Apple devices.
This new player continues to allow play videos and audiovisual content from platforms such as Instagram or Youtube of floating form without leaving the app. That is, we can continue writing messages and browsing the application without having to change the app to see the video that they have sent us. This player has been with us for a long time. Nevertheless, the new design incorporates three new shortcuts: leave the video, enter full screen and pause.
Although some users of the WhatsApp beta already received this new design in previous versions, the great bulk of iOS beta testers have received it in this version that has seen the light in a few hours. WhatsApp has also decided to try another change that many have not quite convinced: when we click on a YouTube link, we will access the video directly in full screen, instead of in a floating player. We will finally see when this new design is integrated and what the final result is.
